By Sam Greenspan
There’s a fine line between thinking of innovative ideas for dates and ending up with disastrous thoughts for dates. About five years ago, I happened to see that a circus from Mexico was here in Los Angeles. I had a first date that night and took the girl to that circus, even though neither of us spoke Spanish. I thought it was brilliant and would help us bond. She got an “emergency call” from her “grandma” who had suddenly come down with “dying” and left after 45 minutes. That’s a date backfire on a grandiose scale.
In my semi-bestselling book 11 Points Guide to Hooking Up, I have a list of 11 Dates That Will Brutally Backfire. Because I blew through 25 percent of my allotted words for this guest post with that circus anecdote, I will only be able to relay abbreviated snippets of five of them:
1. Comedy club: Because somehow, every comedian on the planet has a built-in radar for a nervous couple on a first date. It must be a side effect of cheap beer and mild depression. Anyway, he’ll joke you guys right into never seeing each other again.
